Oklahoma's windswept plains and blood red earth conceal a landscape where secrets linger and the past clings to the present like a shadow.

As the sun dips below the horizon, an eerie glow flickers along the Missouri border.

Is it the wandering spirit of a lost soul or something more sinister?

From the chilling labyrinth of the parallel forest, where tales of rituals echo through unnaturally straight rows of trees.

To a museum in Alva, where the restless spirits of the frontier refuse to fade.

Oklahoma is a land haunted by its history in Oklahoma City.

The Overholser mansion stands frozen in time.

Its grandeur masking the mysterious, lingering presence of those who refuse to leave.

That's weird.

Join us as we journey to the darker side of the Sooner State.

Uncovering Oklahoma's haunted heritage.

On highway 18.

In Pawnee County stands an imposing structure that has seen better days.

Travelers drive past the Ralston Opera House at all hours.

Most have no idea about the famous faces that graced its stage.

Or the spirits that still wander among the footlights.

Paranormal investigator Stacey Price and Tanya McCoy are drawn to its spectral allure.

Eager to confront the lingering echoes of the past.

So this is the opera house.

This is where we investigate tonight.

Oh, like it is full of activity here.

I'm looking forward to it.

Yeah, we're going to love it.

Built in 1902, it's billed as Oklahoma's oldest standing opera house.

Faces painted on the walls tell of the great vaudeville performers who played here.

Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, even Houdini.

It borders up next to the Osage County, which wasn't.

Osage County at the time, but it was the Osage Nation.

Now, back then, you couldn't sell liquor to Native Americans.

So it was a dry county over there.

So what they would do is cross the river to come over here to drink.

Now, that being said, at one time, there's actually 13 saloons in this town.

As an oil boom town, Ralston has a raucous past, and some stories of its wild and rowdy days do not end well.

It was a husband and wife that came up here one night to see a traveling show that was coming through.

And the female ended up having an affair with one of the male actors that was on the troupe during this time.

The husband discovered the affair, confronted the wife, and there was an altercation that happened on the roof.

They don't know if she jumped or if she was pushed, or if it was an accidental.

She just fell to her death.

Fast forward to the 1950s.

They they reports from the town.

They start seeing a guy up on the roof, and sometimes he's accompanied with a female and sometimes they're seen together, or sometimes it's just her.

Anna Brown was actually last seen here before she was murdered the Reign of Terror against the Osage Indians.

So the sister that was visiting here visited this building and then the local bar next door, and then after that, when she left, that's when she was murdered that night.

So this was her last known location that s. There's an effort underway to restore the hall to its former grandeur.

But the spirits, it seems, do not like the noise.

The workers end up having hammers missing and several hammers.

In fact, there's a room that's off to my left that whenever they started renovating that room and looking do stuff there, some of their Halloween decorations was where they're all kept.

They found like five hammers stuffed in one corner.

So some of the reports of activity that occur in the building, they have disembodied voices.

They'll have objects that'll go moving.

They'll have dragging noises.

Some of the seats feel like they're vibrating when there's no vibration coming from anywhere.

People feel eerie, like they're being watched or followed.

When we first came in and we were setting up equipment and figuring out everything, we started hearing footsteps at the back of the theater.

And it sounded like either a woman's high heeled shoes or man's boots.

But it was very heavy stepping and there was probably seven of us that just sat there broad daylight.

This thing was just walking back and forth, As soon as the investigators get settled, the equipment starts picking up activity.

So this is our spirit candle.

And we use this in investigations to ask closed-ended questions.

It picks up the EMF activity and is able to respond to yes or no basic questions.

Are you a female?

If you're a female, will you turn off the candle?

Thank you.

But they know what a candle looks like and it's not anything that's intimidating.

So they'll approach the candle and interact with it easier than they will some of our other equipment.

Just because it's something that is a shape, it's familiar to them.

When they were alive.

If you want us to leave.

Will you light up the candle?

Okay.

They're ready for us to exit the building.

There's been a lot of people that have experienced high anxiety.

I'm not somebody that gets super anxious, but the night that we did stay here, I felt a high degree of anxiety and to the point where I actually slept in my truck.

And I've stayed in some of the most haunted places overnight, that you could imagine.

And that had zero problem staying by myself or with just one other person.

Not far away, near Pawhuska, stands the skeletal remains of the Bird Creek School, cloaked in a shroud of neglect.

Its roof has crumbled, surrendering to the weight of creeping vines and twisted branches.

Though the air hangs heavy with decay, the spirits of its past remain disturbingly active.

When I was doing my research, and talking to a lady that had actually investigated there, one of the things that she used to be able to do is go in, and write your name on the chalkboard, and when you leave and come back to that room, your name would be erased.

And they say it could be some of the ghost of the students still, giggling there.

They say you can hear giggling, which might be other parts of your group.

But other people say it's one of the school teachers, and he or she comes back and they they want to keep the place tidy, even though it's been abandoned for a few decades.

So they clean the blackboard.

There's also, she said that she also experienced desks moving while you're there watching.

I mean, you could see the move.

So that was one of the things that she also said that she experienced there.

Spirits seem to love the stage.

Theaters across the state have stories to tell.

One theater in Enid has many stories.

The Gaslight Theater was built in the, very early, early 20s.

It opened in 1921, February of 1921, and, it was opened as a movie theater.

And then it also became a vaudeville theater.

One of the stories it's the most interesting is that in the box office up front, no matter who's worked the box office, everybody that's ever worked up there has the same story, and they would always hear footsteps up overhead.

They would hear it sound like somebody was walking around upstairs, which used to be an apartment.

And that's where all of our props and things are kept.

You can't get up there except to go through the box office and then up those stairs.

So they would know if someone was in the building.

Both cast and crew report a shadowy figure watching them from the tech booth, and some specters can't resist performing themselves.

On the stage, there have been a couple of different instances of people hearing a woman singing or playing piano.

Had a deal down here one night we were sitting in the auditorium just kind of talking and stuff, passing the time, and they got to it was going to be kind of late about time to go.

And he said, hey, do you want me to go round everybody up and get everybody to the lobby?

And I said, sure, I'll go down in the dressing rooms and make sure everybody's, you know, back up here and we all meet back in the middle.

And so I'm going up behind the the curtain to the green room to turn the lights and everything off and check everything.

And I heard somebody singing on the stage, and I, of course, I stick my head out and I knew there wouldn't be anybody there so there's just a lot of different things that happen here.

And none of it seems nefarious or scary.

It's just kind of weird sometimes.

In southwest Oklahoma near Meers, the parallel forest an enigmatic.

Grove, an odd creation of the federal government, stretches across more than 16 acres.

Over 20,000 cedars stand in an unnatural, regimented array.

very easy to get lost in the parallel forest with, everything being in a grid pattern.

If you're walking straight and take a right, it looks exactly the same as it did before.

So if you mix up and take another right, then, you think you're going forward again, but now you're going back it's extremely eerie because you look down and it's it's perfectly matched either side going in any direction.

So if you walk in and you get too far in, you can almost get turned around and a little lost in this area, which is kind of what freaks people out.

The forests, precision imbues it with an otherworldly quality.

Its rows stretch endlessly into the twilight, where the very air seems to quiver with an oppressive silence.

As you're walking through it, everything goes dead quiet because it's very densely packed.

But sounds will move around things so you can hear somebody talk, turning to look toward them.

Nothing there.

And then turn back.

And they were right in front of you the whole time just because that's where the sound it flowed.

There's an old grinding stone located kind of further back into the forest area.

And that was during the mining era time, you know, back when they were having the gold mining and all that down around Meers.

But this was a grinding stone.

A lot of people consider it to be an altar for witchcraft.

During the big satanic panic back in the 70s and 80s, people would sneak in and do different rituals and so forth at what's called the witch's altar.

People say that the, the rituals that were going on there invited things in, my husband, was not a believer for a long time.

He is now, Where I.

But we were walking through and I had my, my ghost radio go in just to see what we can get.

He's walking and then he slips, and when he slips, he hits, a piece of a tree stump or a root that's sticking out, and it's pretty good size and it jarred into his thigh.

Hey, And right at that time, my ghost radio went off and it said, crying.

So he kind of caught himself and and he stood up and he's like, I'm not crying.

Crying.

I'm not crying.

And then it goes off and says, are you okay?

And he was like, what?

Near the town of Quapaw, there manifests an enigma that haunts the lonely night.

A phenomenon known as the Spook Light.

Lots of people have tried to determine what, what is the spooksville triangle?

What's going on with the spook light?

And it seems to move a little bit around, but mostly it's there on, what they call Devil's Promenade or Spook Light Road.

Old E50 up there, off the turnpike and, to this day, people go over there, take a look, and they'll see this glowing light.

And historically, people have said, oh, you know, it's swamp gas, even though that, it's not a swampy area, it's a very forested area.

And other people say, oh, it's, you know, reflected car lights off of signs and things.

But the thing about the reflected car lights is the legend of the lights.

Go back before route 66.

So there couldn't have been headlights.

It's, back in the 1905, the newspapers were talking about this light.

Trains going through would see this light.

And of course, they think lantern and so forth.

So they make sure the bridges isn't out or anything and then stop the train, and then they have to start it back up.

And it's a big pain enough to get the newspaper saying, there's a ghost out there messing with them and even to 1838, with the arrival of, the trail of tears, people said that that was when the lights first appeared, because they were welcoming people as protective spirits.

But whatever you want to say, the origin is to this day, you can go out, drive, have a park and and watch the lights come out.

Despite extensive investigations, including one by the Army Corps of Engineers.

No one has unraveled the mystery of the light.

Its source and nature remains shrouded in darkness.

Probably the cutest ghost in all of Oklahoma is that of Mex, the first, mascot at the University of Oklahoma.

So he was a little Boston Terrier dog.

He had been, picked up by an Army troop who, had uncovered a, abandoned litter of pups down, on the Mexico-American border during poncho Villa times.

And so they, had Mex come along, and it was his job to chase off all the snakes and stray dogs that would come up there on the field during practice and games, which is not something we have to worry about today, but very different times back in the 19 teens.

But he did his job so well, got rid of all the snakes dogs.

They upgraded him to cheerleader, and, they gave him, sweater with an O on it and a big red cap, and they trained him to howl every time there was a kick and bark every time there was a touchdown.

And, became our first mascot.

So for years, until 1927, when he finally passed away, he was OU's good luck charm.

And they decided that they were going to bury him on the 50 yard line so that he could still come to all the home games.

So they had 4000 people lined up on Lindsay Street, big funeral procession.

They had a little black coffin for him.

And the RuffNeks buried him on the 50 yard line.

And, they say he's still there.

During games, people claim they can hear dogs howling and barking, which I've not heard.

It's too loud for me.

But people have also felt him.

I've had several football players, students who say they'll sit on the bench and let their hands dangle down and kind of cool off with the breeze, and they'll feel a little dog come up, look their fingers and look down to see what's a dog doing here.

And, nothing there.

Henry Overholser arrived in Oklahoma City when it was just an open prairie.

A brilliant businessman.

He quickly became one of the town's founding fathers when it came to building his 20 room Victorian mansion, he chose a site one mile north of downtown to speed the city's inevitable growth.

It was built in 1903, and has obviously had a few renovations throughout that time.

But it was built in 1903 by Anna and Henry Overholser.

I love it.

I mean, first and foremost, just the history.

And the mansion itself is just.

It's beautiful.

And they say that the family still keeps an eye on it.

Mr. Overholser has been seen in the parlor.

Sometimes it smells like cigars.

Whenever we'll walk in and there's no rhyme or reason, it just has a very strong hint of cigar smoke.

Like he's sitting next to you, puffing on his cigar.

Periodically, you will hear what sounds to be a high hills, upstairs walking.

Which obviously, I'm sure is Miss Overholser.

Just letting us know that she's here.

I think she also knows that we love the property as well.

And so I think that she.

I think she likes that.

Mrs.. Overholser was the grand dame of Oklahoma City Society until her death.

Her love of music may have followed her into the afterlife.

There was a time when we came into the mansion and the doors had been locked for a few days.

Nobody was in here.

And so we walk in and music is playing.

And so we followed the music and we went over and I shut off the box, and then we left the room.

So walking around a few minutes later, music comes back like, no rhyme or reason.

That's weird.

It's an old school radio and so you have to physically hit the button and then you have to program a couple of other items on it before you can even listen to music.

The Overholsers had a little girl and she still likes to play in the nursery upstairs.

Upstairs there is one of the children's rooms.

And they have a lot of dolls up there.

And, sometimes the dolls are moved in different locations.

And it's roped off.

So whenever we give tours, you know, it's not something that people can get close enough to the dolls to even move them.

But sometimes the dolls will just be randomly misplaced.

And I believe that that probably is Anna as well.

We've also had some paranormal, paranormal activities that have happened here whenever we've brought different groups in, and then we also have some stories about some rooms getting cooler, even whenever it's burning up.

Summer heat.

Paranormal investigators from around the country flock to Woods County to check out the Cherokee Strip museum in Alva.

The museum was once a hospital, and it rarely disappoints.

Type in the third most haunted place in Oklahoma, the museum or the old hospital is what will show up.

Was built in 1932 and closed about 1970.

And of course, I have a friend that's a nurse who said, you know, probably more people have died here in the local area than anywhere else for a long time.

Can say that I've never really seen anything, at the museum between 1 and 5.

But when you turn the lights off on the third floor and start down, it's like you've just come through a cemetery at midnight.

You get a little curl in the back of your hair thinking stuff like following you.

Of course.

That's just a feeling.

During the time of the hospital, some visitors had gone upstairs.

To the top floor, third floor, to see a patient.

And when they were coming down, there was a little girl that got in the elevator with them.

And, when they landed on the top that I on the main floor, elevators opened up and they were getting ready to leave and turned around and looked, and there was no little girl in the elevator with them.

We have the Head Start program, and a couple of the teachers came up and asked if we had heard about Sarah, and none of us had heard about Sarah.

Well, then he got ready to dismiss the kids to go out to the playground.

These are like, you know, 4 or 5 year olds and, a couple the kids said, Can Sarah go with us?

And the teachers look at you like, Who's Sarah?

And they go, oh, it's the little girl in the corner in the white dress.

All the kids could see Sarah, but none of the adults.

All of the students that came to to our museum want to see the blood spot on the floor.

We do have a place where I don't know when this was a hospital.

If it was where they kept the instruments.

It's a hallway between two surgery rooms, and on the floor is quite a spot.

It looks like blood.

Whenever we clean that floor, that spot gets lighter, but it comes back.

we have a player piano.

It's located up in the, train room now, and, but it would you kind of put a quarter in to make it play, and it got to the point it didn't work, and but people would still put quarters in it.

And so sometimes in the evening, sometime late at night, the piano would come on and play whether it was a malfunction or not, I can't say.

But it did happen.

When security cameras were installed, workers started seeing more than visitors roaming the halls.

We see orbs.

Occasionally.

Sometimes they crawl up the wall.

Sometimes they fly across the door.

I was sitting at the desk watching the security cameras, and there were people with me, and we could see white dots bouncing around on the security cameras, screens.

The people that were out in the hallway saw nothing.

Was looking at the screens, and I saw orbs come out of the surgery room and go down the hallway.

Just one.

And I sat there for a few minutes, and I happened to look down at the lobby screen, and the orbs were coming out of the south wall and traveling to the north wall, and they were big and schools of them.

Don was at the desk downstairs watching the monitors, and he said, Elaine, you've got to come down and see this.

So I go downstairs.

It looked like, a school of tadpoles.

It was just a thick mess of tadpoles living back corner going into the museum.

But this is showing up on our cameras, not the investigators cameras.

Ours.

And, was I smart enough to take a picture with my phone in my pocket of the cameras?

No.

I've enjoyed every, every bit of it because, someone's always got another story.

Oklahoma is steeped in mysteries that dwell in the darkened corners of this storied state, where our ancestors remind us that the past is never truly gone.

Those that investigate these shadows say the sooner state is so active they will be busy for a very, very long time.

Think that based on my travels, and places where I've been, we're pretty haunted.

I would give it probably an eight out of a ten I've been gathering spooky stories here in Oklahoma, since 2009, and, never a shortage.

I'm always finding out this stuff.

And I certainly don't feel, frightened in any way.

No one's talked to me, and no one's touched me.

But if they do, I probably won't come back.